Sesson A: 9:30 – 10:30 |
Session B: 11:10- 12:10 |
Session C: 1:30 – 2:30 |
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Title: MimioClassroom Makes Teaching with Technology Easy
Presenter: Amy Wherley, Mimio and Sallie Kaan, Fox Chapel School District
Room: MSA Auditorium
Description: MimioClassroom Makes Teaching with Technology Easy. Experience the fully integrated MimioClassroom™ family of products as our Mimio representative & a local Mimio educator walk you through our Mimio Interactive Classroom experience. Fully integrated with MimioStudio software, this family of tools brings powerful advantages & increased engagement to your classroom. Not only will you learn what sets Mimio apart in the field of interactive technology, but also have the opportunity to hear how local school districts implement this technology in their classrooms.
Title: Hands on Digital Literacy
Presenter: Jim Gates, Educational Technology Consultant
Room: 1120
Session Description: Bring your laptop to this session, connect to the Internet, and we’ll explore some skills that every student and every teacher should have for the world today. We’ll explore research skills, as well as copyright skills, presentation skills, and more that will help you and your students become better learners!
Title: Online Learning Panel
Moderator: Mike Baker, South Side Area School District, Online Learning Coordinator
Panelists: Denise Dechek -AIU – Waterfront Learning, Nick Trombetta – PA Cyber, Randi Leonard – Fox Chapel, Denise Manganello – Seneca Valley
Room: 1221
Description: During this panel discussions, online learning leaders from western Pennslyvania will discuss successes, failures and offer thoughts on the future of online learning. A backchannel discussion will allow all attending to engage in the conversation.
Title: Technology, Another Tool in the Toolkit
Presenter: Alice Wilder, Co-Creator at Think It Ink It Publishing
Room: 2120
Description: Creating opportunities for children to learn through play has been the guiding principle throughout my career. And when I say ‘play,’ I mean that the learner is interested, challenged and finds a meaningful connection to the content. This does not mean that curriculum is compromised in any way, in fact quite the opposite. Once we as educators tap into the what excites kids we then have the perfect opportunity to challenge them even further than what we all think possible, because we have the two components that matter most — attention and comprehension. Technology is simply a tool that can be used to help create the opportunity…Let’s discuss!
Title: Students Teaching Students
Presenter: Andrew Halter, Hampton Township School District, Keystone Teacher & CFF Coach
Room: 1222
Description: Put students in charge of their own learning and challenge them to transform information into interactive teaching websites for an authentic audience. This session will examine student examples and emphasize technology tools, project design, and assessment strategies for implementing projects that allow students to design authentic, research-based products.
Title: Teaching Programming with Tablets & Mobile Phones
Presenter: Aileen Owens, South Fayette School District, Director of Technology and Innovation
Room: 1223
Description: With the advent of App Labs, generating excitement in the field of programming and computer science just got easier. During this panel discussion you will learn what area schools are doing to bring computer science to the forefront and how unique partnerships are being formed to encourage STEAM.
Title: Creating and Sustaining a Risk Free Technology Environment with Results
Presenters: Justin Agilo, Principal Propel Charter School and Erin Whitaker, Teacher Propel Charter School
Room: 2115
Description: Learn how to create and sustain a risk-free educational technology environment with real RESULTS. Hear from teachers, coaches and administrators from a SMART Showcase School how they plan, teach and provide learning opportunities for students and staff.
Title: iPads in the Classrom
Presenter: Scott Hand, Coordinator of Educational Technology, and Fox Chapel Area Students and Staff Members
Room: 1224
Description: In one short year iPads have made a remarkable impact on learning. Discover examples of uses from K-12 educators from the Fox Chapel Area School District.
Title: Using and Deploying Google Apps for Education
Presenter: Don DaRe, President Concensus Technologies
Room: 2117
Description: Google Apps for Education is a collection of web-based programs and file storage that run in a web browser. The applications include communication tools (Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar), productivity tools (Google Docs: text files, spreadsheets, and presentations). With Google Apps, sharing content is as simple as granting someone access, which facilitates collaboration, peer review of academic materials, and the collective generation of knowledge. Learn how to use Google Apps as an end user and how to deploy and maintain Google Apps as an IT administrator for your environment.
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Title: SMART Response interactive response systems
Presenter: Bob Slaman SMART Technologies-Response/Software Business Development Manager
Room: MSA Auditorium
Description: The SMART Response interactive response system is available in four unique models to suit a variety of learning environments, such as 1:1, K-12, early education, special needs and advanced math and science. Each model gives teachers the ability to instantly track quiz results and lesson comprehension to gain immediate insight into student learning and help increase overall retention and engagement.
Title: Preparing your school for Student Owned Mobile Devices
Presenters: Mike Graham & Dawn Lovin (Moderator: Jim Gates)
Room 2117
Description: In the fall of 2010, Hempfield High School began allowing students to bring their own personal electronic devices to school and use these devices during the school day. Personal electronic devices is a broad category, including cell phones, laptops, and other Internet-enabled devices. During this presentation we will review the steps we took to prepare Hempfield High School for this implementation. We will cover network configurations and security precautions, policies that were written or modified, and staff and student education and communication efforts. After reviewing our implementation, we will have time at the end for a question-and-answer as well as best-practice discussion with the audience.
Title: Paper, Slide, Action!
Presenter: Traci Blazosky, 4th Grade Teacher, Clarion Area School District
Room 1120
Description: Want to advance literacy in multiple ways? Explore subject matter in an exciting way? Storytelling can be used to frame learning, scaffold content and enable students to imagine new perspectives. Accomplish this with a few sheets of paper and a flip cam. Come and slide with me!
Title: Images in the Classroom
Presenter: Matt Dancho, Educational Technology Consultant
Room: 1221
Description: This session will examine the powerful influence of images in our students’ lives, and the need to teach them the principles and skills of visual literacy to expand their visual learning. Participants will practice visual literacy skills by reading and analyzing images. They will apply the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to the integration of images into instruction. Finally, the participants will tour some of the best web resources and tools that can be used to expand the visual learning experiences for their students.
Title: Defined STEM
Presenter: Bonnie Dyer, Curriculum and Instruction Coordinator, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Room: 2235
Description: Defined STEM is a website that provides content and resources for educators to use to make connections to science, technology, engineering, and math during instruction. Resources provided include videos, performance tasks, simulations, lesson plans, and literary tasks.
Title: Skype in the Classroom
Presenter: Bryan Pasquale, Keystone Teacher / Social Studies, New Brighton Area School District
Room: 1222
Description: In this presentation I show how to utilize Skype in the classroom (education.skype.com) to reach out to to other schools/nations. Collaborative lesson examples will also be demonstrated. Furthermore I will show you can use Coveritlive along with Skype to engage more students and add a back-channel element to continue discussion beyond the class period.
Title: The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Presenter: Laura Cipriano
Room: 1223
Description: Participants will be introduced to the idea of virtual learning hubs to transform ordinary class and library websites from just contact information, class calendars and handouts to dynamic, anytime, anywhere learning opportunities that transcend traditional teaching and learning approaches.
Title: Robot Diaries
Presenter: Sue Mellon and Zee Poerio
Room: 2115
Description: Teachers will “reveal all” by sharing their experiences with Carnegie Mellon Universities’ CREATE Lab and how they used light, sound, and movement to construct a robot to narrate a story, express an emotion, or illustrate an idea or concept. Through Robot Diaries, teachers can integrate educational robotics technology and the arts in their classroom while supporting varied Pennsylvania State Standards, Common Core Standards, and STEM. This project based approach will engage and empower your students at all levels and promote technological literacy and integration across the curriculum.
Title: Creating “Sticky” H.E.A.T. ed Lessons and Presentations
Presenter: Stevie Kline, Technology Integrator and Teacher Trainer, Intermediate Unit 1
Room: 2120
Description: Experience several research based “sticky” teaching strategies and presentation techniques by exploring the use of images and how they help students make connections and create context. Learn how incorporating music to set the mood and by involving students’ senses one enriches their experiences, enhances their memory, and fosters their engagement. We will discuss how small changes in pedagogy can bring lessons and activities to a higher level on Bloom’s taxonomy.
an understanding that differentiated instruction does not mean that teachers have to create a different lesson plan for each learner but rather one lesson that reaches multiple learners at the same time.
Title: Instructional Technology Practices & Collaboration Learning
Presenter: Megan Ciccioni, Education Technology Coordinator, Allegheny Valley School Distrcit
Room: 1224
Description: Explore free instructional technology applications that encourage collaborative learning locally and globally. Google Apps, Crocodocs, Edublogs, and Voice Thread are just a few of the web-based tools that demonstrate potency of instructional technology.
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Microsoft and Questeq Presention will take place in the MSA Auditorium. More details to follow.
Title: CoSN’s CTO Certification: What it is and how it will help your career
Presenter: Gayle Dahlman, Director, Certification & Education
Room: 2117
Description: The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the premier professional association for school district technology leaders, is creating a new certification program for Chief Technology Officers (CTO). Based on CoSN’s Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO, the new certification program will be a sought-after destination for technology leaders dedicated to their careers and to the school districts in which they work.
Presenter: Lori Farnsworth, Elementary Teacher, Propel Schools
Room: 1120
Description: Propel Schools and 3 Rivers Connect, a regional non-profit, have piloted the use of an enterprise search tool called the Dynamic Resource Portal (DRP). This presentation will highlight what the project has discovered and how Propel teachers are beginning to use the tool to find more appropriate resources for student learning.
Title: Edmodo An Online Classroom Platform for Free!
Presenter: Dominic Salvucci, Keystone Teacher & CFF Coach, New Brighton Area School District
Room: 1221
Description: Edmodo is a fantastic online classroom platform for teachers who want an easy to use and manage resource. This presentation will give a brief overview of Edmodo and how it compares to other online course platforms. The classroom tools will be modeled and both strengths and weakness will be discussed. Attendee input and participation is greatly encouraged.
Title: Using the Library of Congress’ Digital Primary Sources and Common Core Standards
Presenter: Linda Muller, Instructional Specialist, California University of Pennsylvania
Room: 1222
Description: ”Common Core Standards for Reading Literacy in History/Social Studies speak directly to the use of primary and secondary sources in the classroom.
The Library of Congress is host to over 16 million digitized primary sources including (documents, cartoons, photographs, music, maps, interactive exhibits, and much more).
The Library also provides professional development for teachers through it’s Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program. Our standards-aligned TPS program is offered with the goal of helping teachers maximize the vast resources of the Library’s digital collections and learn how to use primary sources to create engaging, inquiry-based, action-oriented learning experiences for their students.”
Title: Glogster: A Versatile Tool
Presenter: Nicole Bitar, Technology Coach, New Kensington Area School District
Room: 1223
Description: Glogster is a wonderful resource for teachers. It can be used as a guide while working with young children to help them get to different web sites without having to type in long urls. It can also be a place where students can show off their work and make interactive posters. This presentation will show teachers how to use this site both ways. I hope that teachers are able to go away from this presentation with ideas they can use in their classroom tomorrow! ”
Title: The Lovely World of Livebinders
Presenter: Samantha Fecich, PhD. Student, Penn State University and
Co-Presener: Mindy McMahen- transition teacher from WIU 7
Room: 2115
Description: Participants will learn about a great website that gives educators a place to organize, present, and share information and resources effectively and efficiently: LiveBinders (www.livebinders.com). This is a presentation about the basics of livebinders. During this presentation, participants will create an account, learn how to search the site for binders that have already been created, create their own livebinder, and learn how to share the binder and it’s resources with students, as well as other colleagues.
Title: Beyond Text to Understanding
Presenter: James Hausman, High School Language Arts Teacher, South Fayette School District
Room: 2120
Description: Assessing comprehension is a complex task, but teachers now have innovative tools at their disposal to go beyond the superficial. During this presentation a team of teachers will demonstrate how they have used Classroom Salon, combined with other social learning tools such as Edmodo, to motivate students to delve deeper beyond text to understanding.
Title: How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
Presenter: Jon Gould from Schneider Electric
Room: 1224
Description: Computer rooms/data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. Through a series of examples, the presentation will show how “DCIM” software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.
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